Shameik Moore will portray the hero, while Liev Schreiber will voice the villain in the Sony Pictures Animation project. | [News]

The Spider-Man untitled project is now confirmed, it’s an animated film titled: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the voice actor who will be providing the voice talent for Miles Morales the main character. Shameik Moore rose to fame with his amazing role in the indie Dope Netflix hip-hop drama The Get Down. He will now officially voice the Marvel superhero for Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming Christmas 2018 movie.

This movie will focus on Miles Morales featuring subtle hints to Peter Parker. Miles Morales is a very well-known incarnation of the web-slinging superhero, since his debut in 2011. Miles Morales nationality consists of him being African-American and Puerto Rican.

Liev Schreiber is joining the project as the voice of the movie’s villain. The character’s identity is being kept locked tight. Phil Lord wrote the project and is producing alongside his Lego Movie and Han Solo movie co-director, Chris Miller, Bob Persichetti is set to co-direct alongside Peter Ramsey.

The movie will be about Miles Morales’s struggle with his education and superhero career. The character Miles Morales was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli and was introduced in 2011 as part of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, which told tales set in an alternate story universe.

Marvel ended the Ultimate imprint in 2015, but Morales by then had made such an impression that he was integrated into the mainstream Marvel line.The character appeared in Disney XD’s animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, where he was voiced by Donald Glover.